Cubist, geometric, abstract, and seminal—together those words sum up the exhibition of Lee Krasner’s work, “A Through Line” at the Kleefied Contemporary Art Museum. The exhibition traverses Krasner's vibrantly colored path, showcasing her wide range of painted works...
GALLERY ROUNDS: Lee Krasner
REMARKS ON COLOR: Rose Matters May's Hue
She does! She really does! An integral part of the community, Rose Matters more than you might imagine. After all, where would we be without rose-colored glasses, rose hips tea, rose water or some child’s irresistible rosy cheeks in Buffalo New York in the dead of...
PUBLISHER’S EYE: Francisco Palomares Bermudez Projects
A native Angeleno, Francisco Palomares captures his version of the city through his paintings of fruit vendors and street views of bright storefronts (such as Merry’s Flowers LLC and Botanica del Indio), adding personal allusions to his childhood through his still...
GALLERY ROUNDS: Nancy Monk Craig Krull Gallery
Many of the works featured in Nancy Monk's exhibition "Walk + Wood" at Craig Krull Gallery are of small scale and draw from a restrained palette. Looking at the works, the viewer sees things that, at first glance, appear whimsical and childlike. However, on closer...
PUBLISHER’S EYE: Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age, 1952-1982 Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Including videos, computer-generated drawings, screenprints, sculptures and textiles (among many other works), this wide-ranging exhibition presents new ways of thinking about the human relationship with computers by looking at the origins of the computer and digital...
GALLERY ROUNDS: Refik Anadol Jeffrey Deitch
Geophysical reality and machine dreams meld together to often mesmerizing effect in Refik Anadol’s revelatory exhibition at Jeffrey Deitch. The show is at once an ode to the elemental forces shaping the earth’s outdoor spaces (and the human mind’s internal ones) and...
OUTSIDE LA: Printed Matter San Bernardino Valley College
Linguistic determinism suggests that language dictates perception and perceptions are reflected in one’s language. Therefore, when art intersects with politics, the result is "Printed Matter," the current exhibition at San Bernardino Valley College’s Gresham Gallery....
PUBLISHER’S EYE Coady Brown at Shulamit Nazarian
Donning big pinstripe suits, ties, hoop earrings and purple velvet boots, the cool, striking women in Coady Brown’s paintings cinematically glow in nightlife and domestic scenes; the artist plays with colored light, texture and proportion, the long limbs and strong...
GALLERY ROUNDS: “Identity Semantics of the African Diaspora in the United States” The Loft at Liz's
The 1960s Black Arts Movement ignited an important cultural event among its participants. Visual artists addressed themes of Black pride, self-determination, and culture. Preceding it was the Harlem Renaissance (1920–29) with aesthetic architect, Alain Locke, the...
PUBLISHER’S EYE Annemari Vardanyan at Lowell Ryan Projects
With weighty shadows and crisp lines, Vardanyan’s large-scale paintings of groups of young students capture the tension between the individual and community—aside from a couple of whispering girls, the teenagers don’t interact with each other, instead staring down at...
REMARKS ON COLOR: Meriwether Blue April's Hue
Meriwether Blue decided to become a nun and start her own order separate from the Archdiocese, but more aligned with the high-flying nuns of Costa Rica—those avid, though seldom seen, forest dwellers for whom the soul can only be awakened in accordance with the sky....
GALLERY ROUNDS: Strings of Desire Craft Contemporary
Linked by their common use of embroidery, the 13 artists featured in Craft Contemporary's exhibition "Strings of Desire" bring the beautiful intricacy of thread to life. It is imperative to see these works in person to appreciate the effect of threads, yarns and...
PICK OF THE WEEK: Bambou Gili at Night Gallery
Taking its name from The Chick's 1999 song "Goodbye Earl," Bambou Gili's solo Night Gallery exhibition is a beautiful, yet ominous, exploration of the power and potential of womanhood and female friendship. The exhibition loosely follows the song—the story of Mary...
PUBLISHER’S EYE Jochen Lempert and Lin May Saeed at Chris Sharp
Pairing Lempert’s tender black-and-white photographs with Saeed’s large, carved and painted slabs of styrofoam, this two-person exhibition is a poem about nature, scale and texture. A few of the unframed photos show a spider balancing on a human’s knuckle, its...
GALLERY ROUNDS: Robert Russell Anat Ebgi
Robert Russell is a Los Angeles painter whose conceptually based process often begins with an internet search. Be it for other people named Robert Russell, artist's monographs, tea cups, or for his current exhibition, Allach porcelain figurines, Russell culls online...
PUBLISHER’S EYE Olivia Mole at Gattopardo
This three-channel video installation will leave you entranced, smiling at its ridiculousness, and maybe with a New Order song stuck in your head. A beige inflatable couch in the gallery, which appears in the videos, invites you to sit and watch three different...
PICK OF THE WEEK: Vanessa Prager at Diane Rosenstein
Richly colored, blossoming pseudo-portraits comprise Vanessa Prager's solo exhibition titled "Portraits" at Diane Rosenstein Gallery. Each painting depicts a bloom of vibrant flowers sprouting from the necks of the (assumedly) human subjects. Prager's works are a nod...
GALLERY ROUNDS: Kehinde Wiley Roberts Projects
When Kehinde Wiley had the honor of being selected to paint a portrait of former President Barak Obama, it marked a historic moment as he became the first African American to paint an official US presidential portrait for the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery....